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record number of goals this week means that keepers suffered, although five
teams did manage to keep their goals clean. That included Villarreal and Las
Palmas, and López Vallejo and Nacho González improve their
positions slightly in our table, with the former moving up to third behind
Cañizares and Molina. Numancia's Alvaro Nuñez also re-enters our
chart this week with other keepers crashing out, and clean sheets were kept too
by Valladolid's Bizzarri and Barcelona's Reina, his third in a row. Neither
though have played enough games yet to join our list. Casillas let in three and
drops a couple of places, and Leo Franco let in two despite another brilliant
performance against Valencia. But the real losers of the weekend were Kasey
Keller, who's Rayo Vallecano got hit for a 'set' by Zaragoza, and Bilbao's
Lafuente, who let in no less than seven against Barcelona. Neither keeper
played particularly badly, but their defences let them down badly, with
Barcelona racing to six in the first half of the game. Lafuente has been
chipping away gradually in our table, a notch here, up a place there, and to
see it all go down the pan in 45 minutes must be really depressing. He and
Esteban drop out of our ranking this week, and have to start all over again in
seven days time. Still, Bilbao are at home next week - against Real Madrid.
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